Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Montpelier, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Montpelier
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheen Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen, Outlined (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.75282, -8.49153
- SMR number
- LI001-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland, 50m S of the River Shannon and 450m E of a castle (LI001-014----) and O'Brien's Bridge (LI001-005----/CL054-004----). The island of Inishlosky on which a church (CL054-007001-) and graveyard (CL054-007002-) stands lies 100m to NE. Oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 45m N-S x 27m E-W) annotated 'Lisheen Grave Yard' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map which is visible today as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. The enclosing element of the graveyard on the E side forms the townland boundary with Fairyhall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.